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Kerry James Marshall Quotes: I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.
         

I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.


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Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.



I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.



No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.



Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.



Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.



In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.

In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.



The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.



I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very little is left to chance.

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very little is left to chance.



Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.



I really just want to be an inspiration. I'm a regular guy, that had a dream, that came from a small town, that wanted to play guitar and just liked playing. I want to encourage people.

I really just want to be an inspiration. I'm a regular guy, that had a dream, that came from a small town, that wanted to play guitar and just liked playing. I want to encourage people.





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If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

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